Russian Unemployment: Its Magnitude, Characteristics, and Regional Dimensions
48 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Date Written: February 1995
Abstract
The contraction in net employment has been smaller in Russia than in Eastern Europe, but Russian unemployment has been increasing and will probably increase further.
Registered unemployment in Russia is now 2 percent; surveys indicate a true rate of between 5 and 6 percent. Until now, flows in and out of unemployment have been quite large, with durations low.
This may be changing as the ease with which workers are matched to jobs declines - in part because of financing constraints on firms. Already there is great regional variation in unemployment - which, as this model indicates, is likely to persist because of the mismatch in distribution of jobs and the unemployed.
This paper is a joint product of the National Economic Management Division and the EDI Moscow Office, Economic Development Institute. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Labor Markets in Transitional Socialist Economies (RPO 677-30).
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